Seife Belaye Tesfaye

Seife Belaye Tesfaye (22 June 1935-24 August 1978) was an official of the Derg.

Biography
Seife Belaye Tesfaye was born on 22 June 1935 to a family of Orthodox Christian Ethiopians, and he became a member of the Ethiopian Army's officer corps in 1963. Seife rose in rank, and he became a Captain in 1975, when the communist Derg overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie and founded a Marxist-Leninist government. Seife became a member of the new government as a member of the parliament for the Ethiopian Communist Party. However, Seife sympathized with some aspects of the old regime, as he was opposed to the ethnic conflict in politics. Mengistu Haile Mariam ordered for Seife to be arrested, and Seife was imprisoned for sedition without trial. He was executed by firing squad on 24 August 1978.